Chen Hanwei Biography, Age, Wife, Drama

Chen Hanwei Biography

Tan Hung Wee was born on 29 August 1969. He is better known by his Chinese stage name Chen Hanwei. He is a Malaysian actor and Mediacorp artiste based in Singapore. He was crowned the Best Actor five times at the annual Star Awards in the years, 2001, 2005, 2009. 2010 and 2017, sharing the most Best Actor wins with Xie Shaoguang (who also has five wins).

Chen received the All-Time Favourite Artiste Award at the Star Awards 20 after being voted as the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes for 10 years. At the Star Awards 2015, Chen was nominated for both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in which he won the latter for his role as the villainous Hu Weiren in The Journey: Tumultuous Times. He is also known for a song, 关怀方式, sung together with Chua Lee Lian.

Hanwei grew up in Kampung Ungku Mohsin, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Adopted since birth, Hanwei was raised in an impoverished background but successfully completed his studies at Foon Yew High School, one of the country’s Chinese independent schools.

Chen Hanwei Age

Chen Hanwei was born on 29 August 1969. He is currently 49 Years old as of 2018.

Chen Hanwei Wife

Chen Hanwei and Zoe Tay have been close friends for quite along time and been dating and living together. They refer to each other as “close friends” and “best friends forever”.

Chen Hanwei And Zoe Tay

Well, things – specifically, the size of their bank accounts – have changed, but they’ve remained as chummy as ever. Our interview at the imaging session for Channel 8 drama A Million Dollar Dream, in which they pair up as husband and wife for the second time after 2008’s By My Side, consisted largely of the A-listers gleefully exposing each other’s over-the-top purchases.

According to Hanwei, Zoe has so many shoes at home that “if you opened her closet, they would flatten you in an instant”. When we asked Zoe to come clean about exactly how many pairs of footwear she owns, she tried to shrug off the question with “I don’t remember”, which only served to prove Hanwei’s point in his book. “The fact that she cannot remember is scary,” he quipped.

The 48-year-old then continued his attack by revealing that Zoe has at least one handbag with a six-figure price tag in her collection, a statement that she neither confirmed nor denied with her silence (and an ever-so-subtle eye-roll).

Of course, Zoe had her own “accusations” up her sleeve: the 49-year-old let on that Hanwei practically donates money to hospitals thanks to his overly frequent check-ups. “He goes to the doctor when he gets a pimple, and he sees a specialist for an ordinary stomach ache,” she said.

While Hanwei fervently refuted his BFF’s dramatic reports, he did admit that he is in the habit of going for regular physical examinations, and that his biggest recent splurge was an endoscopy on his digestive system worth – get ready for this – a whopping $10,000. “It’s necessary when you get to this age!” he defended himself. “And besides, I made an insurance claim.”

‘Best friends forever’ Zoe Tay and Chen Hanwei live it up in Okinawa

Updated: 25 May 2018

Tay documented the trip last week on her Instagram account, where she described the two of them as “old friends” and “bff” (best friends forever). Among other activities, the actors went snorkelling and gorged themselves on Okinawan cuisine.

Tay and Chen have remained close friends after spending multiple decades in show business, with both having co-starred in numerous TV dramas such as By My Side (2008), Devotion (2011) and The Dream Makers.